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Rare, critically endangered gecko making dramatic recovery in Caribbean

Maxwell Radwin 2 Dec 2022
Aerial photo of riparian forest and deforestation for soy.

To be effective, zero-deforestation pledges need a critical mass, study shows

Sarah Sax 30 Nov 2022
Mother and baby orangutans.

What can Half or Whole Earth conservation strategies do for orangutans?

John Cannon 28 Nov 2022

Despite pledges, obstacles stifle community climate and conservation funding

John Cannon 23 Nov 2022
Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Where is the money? Brazil, Indonesia and Congo join forces in push for rainforest protection cash

Shanna Hanbury 18 Nov 2022
Illustration of deforestation.

Following the impacts of palm oil alliance: Violated regulations and penalty proceedings

Tras las huellas de la palma alliance 17 Nov 2022
river forest

Deforestation is pushing Amazon to ‘point of no return’: WWF report

Maxwell Radwin 9 Nov 2022
Aerial photo of thick rainforest and the plowed fields of crops.

Growing soy on cattle pasture can eliminate Amazon deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 4 Nov 2022
Gura Ferda expedition, Ethiopia, May-June 2022. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

Ethiopia’s honey forest: People and wildlife living in sweet harmony

Ed Holt 18 Oct 2022

Ecuador’s Indigenous Siekopai communities sue for title in protected area

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

Successes and struggles: Brazil’s 20-year Amazon reforestation carbon sink project

Marina Martinez 12 Oct 2022
Logging operation in the Amazon.

Brazil may fail Paris Agreement targets by 137% if Bolsonaro stays in office

Jaqueline Sordi 7 Oct 2022

Malaysia revokes oil palm concession near UNESCO-listed Bornean park

Rachel Donald 5 Oct 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil

Could Brazil’s election decide the fate of the Amazon?

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022

Tiny new tree frog species found in rewilded Costa Rican nature reserve

Liz Kimbrough 9 Sep 2022
Lowland tropical rainforest

Protecting global forests with a limited budget? New study shows where and when to start

Liz Kimbrough 31 Aug 2022

Fighting extractive industries in Ecuador: Q&A with Indigenous rights activist María Espinosa

Maxwell Radwin 22 Aug 2022

Indigenous activists in Borneo claim win as logging firm removes equipment from disputed area

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 2 Aug 2022
Study co-author Corneille Ewango.

In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil

John Cannon 28 Jul 2022
lake landscape

Restoring Mexico’s ‘Garden of Eden’ is a process of deep regeneration

Ocean Malandra 21 Jul 2022

$245-million initiative to create and maintain protected areas in Colombia

Maxwell Radwin 14 Jul 2022
A farmer in a village in the Kerinci region.

A conservation failure in Sumatra serves a cautionary tale for PES schemes

Cassie Freund 30 Jun 2022
Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narvaez, Goldman Prize winners for South and Central America in 2022.

For Ecuador’s A’i Cofán leaders, Goldman Prize validates Indigenous struggle

Ana Cristina Alvarado, Diego Cazar Baquero 16 Jun 2022

‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern

John Cannon 14 Jun 2022

Loggers close in on one of the world’s oldest biosphere reserves

Gloria Pallares 13 Jun 2022

For companies shopping for quality carbon credits, a new guide offers help

Maxwell Radwin 10 Jun 2022
Christina Haverkamp (center), founder of the German NGO Hilfe Yanomami, with Indigenous children. The activist has been going to Brazil since the 1990s and says wildcat miners are disrupting the life of the Yanomami people. Image courtesy of Hilfe Yanomami.

At 30, Brazil’s Yanomami reserve is beset by mining, malaria and mercury

Peter Speetjens 9 Jun 2022

New near-real-time tool reveals Earth’s land cover in more detail than ever before

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2022

Can conservation technology help save our rapidly disappearing species? | Problem Solved

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Jun 2022

End old-growth logging in carbon-rich ‘crown jewel’ of U.S. forests: Study

John Cannon 8 Jun 2022

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